Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Role of Motors (Including DBIO Best Thesis Award Lecture)

Presentations

• Forces driving three-dimensional tissue patterning during morphogenesis

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:00 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Heng Lu

    • Duke University

  • Adam Sokolow

    • Duke University

  • U. Serdar Tulu

    • Duke University

  • Daniel Kiehart

    • Duke University

  • Glenn Edwards

    • Duke University

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• Cell Autonomous Shape Changes in Germband Retraction

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:12 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Holley Lynch

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Elliott Kim

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Robert Gish

    • Vanderbilt University

  • M. Shane Hutson

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
    • Vanderbilt University

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• Wavefronts and mechanical signaling in early Drosophila embryos

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:24 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Timon Idema

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Julien Dubuis

    • Princeton University

  • Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University

  • Philip Nelson

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Passive cellular microrheology in developing fruit fly embryos

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:36 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Sarah Crews

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Xiaoyan Ma

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Stacey Lawrence

    • Vanderbilt University

  • M. Shane Hutson

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
    • Vanderbilt University

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• Remodeling of cellular cytoskeleton drives tissue level morphogenesis

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:48 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Madhav Mani

    • KITP and UCSB Physics

  • Thomas Lecuit

    • IBDML

  • Boris Shraiman

    • KITP and UCSB Physics
    • KITP and Physics Department, UCSB
    • KITP

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• Investigation of autonomous cell dynamics using holographic laser microsurgery

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 9:00 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Aroshan Jayasinghe

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  • M. Shane Hutson

    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
    • Vanderbilt University

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• DBIO Best Thesis Award: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Organization of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton and Cell Wall

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 2, 2012, 9:12 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Siyuan Wang

    • Harvard University

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• Coupling of Active Motion and Advection Shapes Intracellular Cargo Transport

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 9:48 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Philipp Khuc Trong

    • Department of Physics, and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

  • Jochen Guck

    • Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

  • Raymond E. Goldstein

    • DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge

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• Motion in partially and fully cross-linked F-actin networks

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:00 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Eliza Morris

    • Harvard University

  • Allen Ehrlicher

    • Harvard University

  • David Weitz

    • Harvard University
    • Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
    • Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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• Measurements of the constituent contributions to the physical properties of fibroblast populated collagen microtissues with magnetic micro-tissue stretchers

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:12 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ruogang Zhao

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Alan Liu

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Thomas Boudou

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Christopher Chen

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Daniel Reich

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Crowding of molecular motors determines microtubule depolymerization

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:24 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Louis Reese

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

  • Anna Melbinger

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

  • Erwin Frey

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\"at M\"unchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

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• Physics of the actin cortex in shape oscillations of dividing cells

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:36 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Guillaume Salbreux

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

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• Geometrical Reorganisation of the Cytoskeleton and Changes in Cellular Stiffness Following Stretch

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:48 AM – March 2, 2012, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Harikrishnan Parameswaran

    • Boston University

  • Bela Suki

    • Boston University

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